This is the official webpage of the Frosty Winter Weather Mod for ATS.
This mod simulates winter.
Key Features
Winter weather and environment
Snow/Sleet instead of rain
Frosty road textures
Winter daylight hours and temperatures
Random cloudy, misty and sunny weather
HDR bloom reduced
*Physics Optional Addon available
*Physics Optional Addon – Makes the roads a little more slippy (Trailer stability should be set to zero which is what SCS recommend as the most realistic)
Compatibility Latest Version: 1.33
Changes in v2.5
Updated for 1.33
Snow on windscreen improved (along with SCS improvements)
Vegetation & weather improvements
Thick fog issue fixed
New physics addon available
Recommended Settings
HDR: Enabled
Color Correction: Enabled
Vegetation Detail: High
Grass Density: High
Important!!
Frosty is a weather and graphics mod so other weather, HDR and environmental graphics mods should be disabled.
Frosty should be placed on top in Mod Manager.
Download v2.5 for 1.33
(Sharemods 491mb)
Download Physics Addon v2.5 for 1.33
(Sharemods 20kb)
(Makes the roads a little more slippery)
Donations
You can donate $2 here
You can donate $5 here
You can donate $10 here
Donate your own amount by clicking the button on the top right of the page.
Older Versions
Download Link v2.4 for 1.32 (Sharemods 517mb)
https://sharemods.com/7v7w36qzafxw/frosty_ats_v2_4.scs.html
Download Link v2.3 for 1.31, 1.30, 1.29 (Sharemods 237mb)
http://sharemods.com/zdnqn5pomjyf/frosty_ats_v2_3.scs.html
Download Link v2.2 for 1.29 (Sharemods 219mb)
http://sharemods.com/nsvgw7eb9nc1/frosty_ats_v2_2.scs.html
Credits: Grimes
Can you make one for Autumn?
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It would take a lot of effort and frankly the level of interest in ATS mods is a lot less than ETS2.
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Nice looking winter mod. I like how it looks in the dessert.
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Thank you 🙂
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I just found this but am running 1.29 Beta. I hope this gets updated as well, as I would love to feature this on my live stream 🙂
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To be honest this mod doesn’t get a lot of downloads, although I might update it in December.
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I wonder, where the Mild Winter Mod is? I used it for a long time now, but after all, it is not working with the 1.29 update also. What can be done to update it? 😉
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My weather mods for ATS need updating, I’ll try and update Mild Winter next month.
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Thanx a lot and give it an entry in your blog…
Tell me where to send the beer. 😀
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Try updating to 1.33
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Please do update the mod this winter! Especially with the New Mexico dlc out now!
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Should hopefully be updated later this week.
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Thank you very much, Grimes, that beautiful it all looks. Best regards
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Thanks!
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It is wunderfull! Thanks sooooo much!
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Thanks mate, I’ll update it in a couple of weeks to improve the vegetation and add more New Mexico textures.
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That sounds great. I’m looking forward to it.
Now we can truck x-mas down in the snow.
Yeeeeeeehaw!
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Great mod! can you put in a physics mod to make it more slippery like you did in ETS2?
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Not sure, maybe I’ll make an addon.
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@Billfeld Hopefully I’ll be able to release it before xmas 🙂
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Yeah, yeah. Just OK. Xmas is a busy time.
And… have fun with the beer. 😉
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Thanks a lot mate, much appreciated 😉
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Would you consider making the Heavy Winter Addon and Physics Addon for ATS? Physics has been asked I know and saw the reply you gave.
I know what you said that there is not many people enjoying it and it is a lot of work, but I know I would appreciate it if it would be possible to get those addons for ATS as well.
If not totally understanding it, but doesn’t hurt to ask 😉
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The ETS2 physics mod might work ok with ATS, I don’t really want to do Heavy Winter for ATS at the moment because it’s a bit too much for those southern states.
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ok totally understand where you are coming from, thx for the answer
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Can’t you make it where the snow only appears in the north? BTW, love this plug in and have it on both ATS and ETS 2…. I also have the physics mode and heavy winteradd ons as well. I feature on my youtube channel. I wish you wouold do a heavy winter add on and physics mod too for ATS
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The same assets are used in different parts of the map which is why you can’t have snow in some places and not in others, not sure about heavy winter as I don’t want to have too much snow in ATS as it only features southerly desert states at the moment.
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Gracias por COMPARTIR👌👌
Saludos cordiales🖐🖐 y Feliz Año
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Muchos gracias hromerito!
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¡¡¡EXCELLENT!!! Thanks
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So it’s best to disable the Realistic Graphics mod too? Great looking mod. By the looks it’ll make me feel like I’m out trucking again……. in the cold. LOL
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Thanks mate, yep its best to disable other graphics mods.
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Just for the hell of it I tried putting in the ETS2 physics into ATS and just like magic it worked!
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It is now slippery running in the winter, thank you!
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I had the original mild winter, which I like and I like this also. The snow is cool!
Just one thing I would like, and that’s bring back proper darkness. When ETS2 first launched, for the first time ever it was properly dark at night, so that without lights on you couldn’t see anything. Now with ATS and successive updates, it keeps getting lighter at night again so that now it’s hardly dark at all. On your mod, as expected, it gets dark earlier and light again later in the morning, but the middle part of the night to me always looks (as in ATS un-modified) like bright full moon. Most of the time, it’s not that light – especially in cloudy weather.
Early on in ETS2 I made a mod for headlights so the AI headlights illuminate the road properly – and on unlit roads in the first ETS2 you needed that as you couldn’t see beyond the car you were following, otherwise. Now, I still put that mod out for ATS but it’s hardly needed 😦
I did take a look at the climate files thinking to alter the light values for myself, but as usual all the values are like
diffuse[0]: (&3d332380, &3d6cc564, &3d810b66)
and I have no idea what those “&garbage” values are or how to change them so as to make it darker. This is a problem often in ETS2/ATS where in fact I know that those are just 3 numeric values, for RGB, but I don’t have any reference to tell me how to adjust them.
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With winter mods it will be brighter at night than normal because of the reflective nature of the landscape, the values you mentioned are hex numbers, the ones to change are the 2nd and 3rd, so for example to reduce the diffuse light value by 4 you would change them to
diffuse[0]: (&3d032380, &3d2cc564, &3d410b66)
by 8
diffuse[0]: (&3cc32380, &3cecc564, &3d00b66)
You can mess around with these until you get the light settings you want.
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also a new version for ats 1.32.xxx
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would be coo lto have this updated for ATS. But maybe with Oregon coming it would need anoher update? I do not know but yes i miss this in ATS for now. Take your time do what is important for you. Thx for all mods you update and share.
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Thanks, I’ll try and update it after the Oregon DLC is released.
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That would be very much appreciated. I know I do not comment a lot but i do use your mods with pleasure.
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Any ETA on this update, and will you be doing an Autumn mod for sunny Oregon ? Your beer awaits !
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Thanks Gabe, Mild Winter will become a Late Autumn/Early Winter mod, I’ll try to update it this week, Frosty perhaps next week.
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All done I see ! Thanks Pal – drink on its way at weekend.
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Just this mod to update, should be done this week.
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Hi Grimes,work with version 1.32 and new dlc oregon?
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I haven’t update it yet for the Oregon DLC, I’ll do that in a couple of weeks.
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Thank you Grimes !!!
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Take all the time you need Grimes, i am sure it will be worth to wait for Winter update and then see Oregon in the snow… Might be magic 🙂
Thx for all your mods, i realize adjusting/updating mods is not always easy or simple, I do hope this mod gets updated cause i love to see ATS in snow.
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Thanks Pitbull, look out for an update for this mod over the next couple of days.
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That was faster then a couple days from now 😉 Thx grimes you are an angel
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Hi Grimes, thanks for the update to 1.32. Ive been a fan of your work for a long time now and well winter here & ets are brilliant. mods like this one make the game so much better. keep up the great work.
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Thanks very much 🙂
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Thick as fog in San Francisco but only San Francisco were you can only see 3ft in-front of you. is it suppose to be this thick ?
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There’s no specific weather for SF, it’s just random.
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please add the driving physics so itll be slippery an harder drive & braking please? im sorry but im not gettin it until then.. then i may donate but right now its not worth it its just sad buddy because the mod looks beautiful
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You can use the physics mod from the ETS2 version, it works the same.
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Hi.
So there won’t be a Frosty AND Heavy Winter as in ETS2 ?
I understand that that in ETS2, Heavy Winter, also needs Frosty, but Physics is optional.
So, in ATS, there is just Early Winter, OR Frosty, and Frosty can optionally be used with the Heavy Winter Physics from ETS2.
Is this evidence of my correct understanding ?
Cheers.
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Yeah that’s it, maybe in the future I’ll do a heavy winter version in ATS as well.
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To be honest thought, Heavy winter is a little too much for central U.S . ?!?
I’m more than happy with what we have now…. just wanted to make sure I was understanding the load order.
Thanks again Grimesey !
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Is there a physics mod available somewhere to pair with this for winter/snow/icy road physics that’s compatible with 1.32?
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Disregard my above comment. I applied RTFM and read up a tiny bit… My bad. Was too hasty to comment.
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is there a way to stop the Zero visability fog, it pops up several times an hour and i have to stop playing the game until it passes
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There shouldn’t be any zero visibility fog in this mod but a few people have reported it so I’ll have to check it out and see what the issue is.
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I rather like it and thought it was an intentional feature. Thought it was to simulate a whiteout scenario. And I’ve only encountered it once, in this video here. Timestamped link to the whiteout: https://youtu.be/TRXSwRBypNQ?t=610
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I thought people were talking about the fog in dry weather, yeah in heavy snow visibility will be bad but it shouldn’t be undriveable, I’ll check it out when I have time.
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The video starts at 10:10 as the whiteout is slowly building then around 11:00 minutes, the whiteout is pretty much in full effect.
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I like it too, so please don’t change it too much. It’s the closest thing to a ‘pea-souper’ we have had in the games since they were released. I love the way the snow kinda turns to sleet and rolls off the windshield with the new 1.33 raindrops feature.
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Will this mod need an update for the new rain physics in 1.33 or is the rain just a texture and no update will be needed?
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*or is the snow just a different rain texture
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It’ll probably need updating.
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Alrighty. I kinda figured. I can’t wait to see how the snow will act with the new physics. 🙂
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Is the Frosty Winter Weather Mod going to be updated to 1.33 when goes live?
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Yes, it should go live soon, so probably update it next week.
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Apparently, the ATS mods didn’t need an update, they still worked for some reason, but the ETS 2 mods will still need updating because they crash the game. I don’t know why, because both games have nearly the same code under the hood as each other, but something must be different.
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It’s great that your Frosty Winter mod works with the 1.33 ATS update. I was so relieved to see it working when I played yesterday, now all we need is the update to the mods for ETS2 and we’ll be set for another year.
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It works but there are several issues that need to be fixed so I’ll try and update it next week.
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Oh no…. not another update.
Truck sims getting like GTA 5 – a nightmare.
They bring out updates every 2 months and renders all the mods unusable. I have given up on GTA 5.
This sim seems to be going the same way.
What if Grimes is abducted by Aliens ? We are all fucked !
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Gabe, if Grimes gets abducted by aliens, I’ll threaten to grab the nearest F15 and go full Rnady Quaid on ’em … they’ll listen to reason.
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Listen…. he may. What happens then ?
Grimes needs an apprentice.
We should have a whip round !
We take people for granted. ETS and ATS without Grimes’ seasonal mods will be very dull.
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why is there no frosty_heavy_winter_ _ for ATS frosty 2.4
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Maybe I’ll do that later when there are a few more northern states
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How long for the ATS 1.3 Late Autumn Sir ?
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This mod needs a few minor fixes here and there, I’ll do that after the holidays, in the meantime it’s ok to use v2.4 in 1.33, you just might see some small vegetation issues in Oregon.
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There is Big Sur, CA, Northern CA and the North of Arizona and North of New Mexico gets a fair amount of snow in the mountains, but you’re right. I believe that Washington may be the next state and then there will be two map teams, each of them going east from next DLC cycle. It could be that one map team will go north to east, one of them will do south to east. In the meantime, I can enjoy the Heavy Winter mod when I play ETS2 until you think conditions are right to do the ATS Heavy mod. I would ask that the players who love your ATS Frosty mod would really really really love to be able to have that. In the meantime, could we please have a physics mod to go with the Frosty ATS mod like the ETS2 Frosty mod? It would go a long way to making the scene as real as possible. Thank you for doing the other mods for ATS, I really love these. I hope I’m not asking too much but could there be a Spring mod for ATS. I know there is the Realistic Environment Mod that I use after Winter is over, so Spring would be great, so would Summer. Anyway, sorry for the ramble, I just love these mods so much.
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Thanks Patrick, I tried a spring mod for ATS a couple of years ago but it didn’t really work for the current states, the main reason I did summer for ETS2 was to get of older low res textures like the trees, grass, roads etc, ATS doesn’t have those. There’s also the issue of time and the fact that there’s a lot less interest in ATS mods compared to ETS2.
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I agree with all this.
ATS does look a lot better, out of the box… but I would imagine an Autumn (Fall) mod, would at least give us a bit of variety, and woyld probably be quite popular.
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The interest in ATS is probably proportionate to the size of the map. As the map gets bigger, more people will want to play if they can take trips that last for thousands of miles. Once we get half the country mapped, the player base should double. Example, I lived in Dayton, Ohio for 6 years and we had snow piled up to a third of our front door most winter days. Once we get more northern states, you’ll probably see an increase in downloads for the Autumn/Fall Mods and Frosty and hopefully the new ‘Heavy’ mod. Good things come to those who wait.
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Just sent 7.50 dollar Sir. 5 quid GBP.
Don’t spend it all at once !
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Thanks very much Gabe, I feel safer knowing you’re looking out for those pesky aliens 🙂
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Hey, I’m serious. We need you alive and well, or at least get an apprentice !
Have a good “Holiday Period”.
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>Merci bcp pour ce mod, je vais aller le tester sur ATS , s’il fonctionne je reviendrais poster un message de confirmation
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I tried to install mod put it in mod folder ran game and its not in the mod manager can someone please help im not understanding
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After downloading you should have frosty_ats_v2_5.scs file, place this in your mod folder (windows: documents/euro truck simulator 2/mod) or (mac: library/Application Support/Euro Truck Simulator 2) then activate it in Mod Manager.
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You are looking for the Mods folder in the Documents/ETS2/Mods.
When you start game, it should tell you “You have new mods”….. go into mods and activate ensuring it appears on list to the right side.
Let us know if you get it working
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Fantastic addon none the least. Worth a donation which I hope you will appreciate.
One little snag though. Some textures are missing or something since the roads are showing red/pinkish in some rather large area. For instance Freeway 80 between Winnemucca and Elko (including the road town themselves) render in pink. Freeway 40 From Barstow to Kingman as the same issue if my memory serves me right.
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Thanks very much for the donation, very much appreciated, if your missing some textures that might be a conflict with another mod, can you post an image somewhere and I’ll take a look at it, placing Frosty on top in Mod Manager may help with this.
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By missing textures I mean that some surfaces shows in pink (salmon) colour with a black text. Day or night. And for possible conflicting mods I really can’t see what could be the problem. None of the addon I have are scenery related. Only trucks, trailers, AI, or behavior setting.
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Me again. You where correct after all. While I proceeded to update the addon to the 2.5 version, I realized that with my intial installation I’ve aded the ‘heavy winter’ addon that you made for ETS thinking that it would make a heavier looking winter in america. …. Hence the snowbanks….
Sorry for the trouble and happy new year.
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May be a “Blood Moon” !
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Does it work with Oregon now, Grimes?
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Yes.
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how do I get this mod working with 1.33 please help
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Download the mod then place it in your mod folder, documents/American Truck Simulator/mod, then activate in Mod Manager when you open the game.
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Any chance you could make an extra slippy physics version like the ETS2 one? It’s great fun having to plan where you need to break for sharper turns and watching your trailer slide about in yer mirrors.
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The physics mod in ATS is the same as the one in ETS2, maybe the six wheelers provide more stability.
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huh, I thought there was an extra slippy version but I mistook the heavy winter file for a second physics file. I must have something set different between the two because in ETS I can jack knife and spin out under medium brake pressure but in ATS it takes trying to take a 90 degree corner at high speeds while also slamming the brakes on as hard as possible.
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The first physics version I did for ETS2 was more slippy than the 7.01 version, if you still have that you could try using it in the ATS version.
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I wouldn’t be surprised, the Kenworth trucks are built like tanks, lol. The are much more stable partly because of the longer wheel base, but the cabover trucks are more maneuverable at lower speeds but the higher your speed gets, a cabover is increasingly more dangerous.
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Thank you for your wonderful mods ! Looking forward to see your future ATS & ETS2 enhancements
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Thanks very much Robin 🙂
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